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one part of health care reform law that has brakes on it pertains to medicare. there are a number of other provisions, adding preventive benefits for annual mammograms and : naskapis without co-payments, closing the doughnut hole for prescription drugs, all good things. and that is -- here is where we're headed in medicare. this is a -- from the medicare trustees' report that reports on the financial state of medicare. it starts in 1967. this is a data for how much the average person who is over 65 and collecting social security. let's take someone who has earned $50,000 per year, the average wage or the course of their working life. they retire. and you have to pay for medicare. it's not free. you have to pay premiums and co-payments. you paid for part b, which is dr. sturgis and part b is prescription drugs. end in 1967, two years after medicare was started, the average person on social security paid 6% of their social security check just for physician visits. there was not part deep. so 6% of their social security check. in 2010 its 27%. in 2035 is going up t
one part of health care reform law that has brakes on it pertains to medicare. there are a number of other provisions, adding preventive benefits for annual mammograms and : naskapis without co-payments, closing the doughnut hole for prescription drugs, all good things. and that is -- here is where we're headed in medicare. this is a -- from the medicare trustees' report that reports on the financial state of medicare. it starts in 1967. this is a data for how much the average person who is...
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. >> do you think it's time for laws of robotics? >> the three laws of robotics are the rules that stop robots from killing. everybody brings this up, and for a robot to be smart enough to apply the three laws, they've already taken over the world; right? [laughter] that's really hard. that's artificial intelligence. turns out it's, like, just shooting guns, that's easy. robots are good at that stuff, but bad at reassuring people. that's not the way it's going to happen. we can't have -- we can't have robots with the intelligence to make ethical choices. we need to search society and cull qhur, what's what's going on, and evolve our regulatory and surveillance activity to stop it early. >> back to the technology, and there's questions about hobbyists, and you talked about the doctor e-mailing you, the dna for your vaccine. what if it was a spoof e-mail. e-mail is easy to spoof. ingest this, give it to your kids. worry about that? >> i talked to craig at length about this. right now, dna sint thinks is done by big companies. you can d
. >> do you think it's time for laws of robotics? >> the three laws of robotics are the rules that stop robots from killing. everybody brings this up, and for a robot to be smart enough to apply the three laws, they've already taken over the world; right? [laughter] that's really hard. that's artificial intelligence. turns out it's, like, just shooting guns, that's easy. robots are good at that stuff, but bad at reassuring people. that's not the way it's going to happen. we can't...
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that was not the case but states have laws they would not allow them to come and. based nine dread scott they said that it is a far cry. i know think it could have been done. but few have ever voted to put slavery into place. >> this is a good example of a failure to compromise for good you have an opinion on the country's ability to compromise that people see as a problem to lincoln's and failure for compromise to save our country? >> historians tend to get questions like that. i have enough trouble understanding the past. [laughter] the future is beyond me. the president is beyond me much less the future. [laughter] >> henry clay o.r. negative no less -- webster lived long enough with a sway him differently? >> that is a better question for me. that is about the past. [laughter] although it is counterfactual. who knows? with there were hard-liners who would write letters to say we cannot take the stand that we needed. they would have compromised anything where lincoln sought it coming apart before his very eyes. the confederate states were established one month b
that was not the case but states have laws they would not allow them to come and. based nine dread scott they said that it is a far cry. i know think it could have been done. but few have ever voted to put slavery into place. >> this is a good example of a failure to compromise for good you have an opinion on the country's ability to compromise that people see as a problem to lincoln's and failure for compromise to save our country? >> historians tend to get questions like that. i...
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they don't want to follow our laws. on glenn beck tonight, and i don't understand the people, illegal is illegal, joe, and so, i mean, tell the audience, i mean, tell them how you know they're illegal. well, i don't know, we're just going to do it. i don't care what they say. glenn beck show, racial profiling. so what? talking with the sheriff, under investigation by the department of justice for the worst cases of racial profiling in american history, but that's not the issue tonight on fox news. we are talking about the cold case posse with evidence that perhaps the man in the white house is, perhaps, from kenya. governor brewer and her finger, i'm going to get you my little pretty. when that happens, her book shuts number seven on amazon. she had 500,000 friends on facebook, and i read comments every night to see what they think. the washington post said she played chicken with them on health care, and said, stay out of her business saying there's no federal regulation of guns produce the and ammunition produced and
they don't want to follow our laws. on glenn beck tonight, and i don't understand the people, illegal is illegal, joe, and so, i mean, tell the audience, i mean, tell them how you know they're illegal. well, i don't know, we're just going to do it. i don't care what they say. glenn beck show, racial profiling. so what? talking with the sheriff, under investigation by the department of justice for the worst cases of racial profiling in american history, but that's not the issue tonight on fox...
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his current focus is on constitutional law, media law and the supreme court. he has been a senior writer for american lawyer media. he is as distinguished lecturer in writing that concern university, reporter in supreme court correspondent for the new york times and an attorney with wilbur cut their and graduate of princeton university and harvard law school please welcome stuart taylor. [applause] >> thank you very much. please accept my heartfelt thanks for giving us this opportunity to talk about a new book. i am going to focus more on the case in the supreme court and i will talk a little bit about the relevance of our book's evidence about "mismatch" etc. to the case. this case, we didn't know about this case when we started this book. and the issues that we focus on, we think the solutions to the issues the book focuses are pretty similar to the solutions to the overall racial preference problem, basically reducing the size of preferences and making them more transparent. abigail fisher is a student who brought this suit. was not admitted to the universi
his current focus is on constitutional law, media law and the supreme court. he has been a senior writer for american lawyer media. he is as distinguished lecturer in writing that concern university, reporter in supreme court correspondent for the new york times and an attorney with wilbur cut their and graduate of princeton university and harvard law school please welcome stuart taylor. [applause] >> thank you very much. please accept my heartfelt thanks for giving us this opportunity to...
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, media law and the supreme court. he has been a senior writer for american lawyer media. he's been a distinguished lecture in writing at princeton university reporter and supreme court correspondent for "the new york times" and an attorney with wilmer cutler. he's a graduate of princeton university and i believe it is a harvard law school? yes. please welcome stuart taylor. [applause] >> thank you very much and please extend my heartfelt thanks to you and cato for giving us this opportunity to try to talk about our new book. as rick said i'm the focus more on the case in the supreme court and i will give the basics of that case and then i will talk a little bit about the relevance of our books evidence about mismatched etc. to the case. this case we didn't know about this case when we started the book and the case doesn't dwell on the issues the book focuses on but we think that the solutions to the issues the book focuses on are pretty similar to the solutions to the overall racial preference problem basically reduci
, media law and the supreme court. he has been a senior writer for american lawyer media. he's been a distinguished lecture in writing at princeton university reporter and supreme court correspondent for "the new york times" and an attorney with wilmer cutler. he's a graduate of princeton university and i believe it is a harvard law school? yes. please welcome stuart taylor. [applause] >> thank you very much and please extend my heartfelt thanks to you and cato for giving us...
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my law firm brought the case gebs the -- against the university of michigan and law school. we brought that original case ten years ago, won against the law school, lost against undergrads because of sandra day o'connor who says we need 25 more years of affirmative action. now we have constitutional provisions with expiration dates. [laughter] there's -- there's -- an interesting book called "mismatched" by two liberals making the argument with empirical evidence that affirmative action is harmful to black people. what a surprise. liberals try to help, ruin black people's lives. that's the story of the book. their argument is by if it's a little bit of affirmative action, not bad, but elevating people to schools they are not ready for and where everyone else has higher scores, they get discouraged, depressed, feel stupid, drop out, easy subjects. one way liberals brushed the sad results of affirmative action under the rug is all the black studies courses which just pushes them off into a ghetto. how do they cover the failure of the public schools? affirmative action. i have
my law firm brought the case gebs the -- against the university of michigan and law school. we brought that original case ten years ago, won against the law school, lost against undergrads because of sandra day o'connor who says we need 25 more years of affirmative action. now we have constitutional provisions with expiration dates. [laughter] there's -- there's -- an interesting book called "mismatched" by two liberals making the argument with empirical evidence that affirmative...
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one of my brothers went to law school here, and he still lives in a city and practices law here. older son also went to law school. but he does not live in a city. my youngest son does, however, with his family. he lives here. moreover, my wife has an aunt and cousins who live in the city. so i still have very strong connections to land. now, tonight i'm going to discuss abraham lincoln stroll, 1860-1861. more specifically, i want to talk about why abraham lincoln rejected any meaningful compromise. following his election as president november 1860, the country the script but a crisis. because many southerners feared lincoln and his republican party. republican party was a northern party, and proudly so. but it did not have a significant southern connection. lincoln was elected without a single electoral votes from any of the 15 slave states, and only four border states, missouri, kentucky, maryland and delaware did he get any popular vote. and they are nearly a handful. for the first time in the nation's history, a party without any notable southern component would be taking ove
one of my brothers went to law school here, and he still lives in a city and practices law here. older son also went to law school. but he does not live in a city. my youngest son does, however, with his family. he lives here. moreover, my wife has an aunt and cousins who live in the city. so i still have very strong connections to land. now, tonight i'm going to discuss abraham lincoln stroll, 1860-1861. more specifically, i want to talk about why abraham lincoln rejected any meaningful...
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>> my law firm brought the case against university of michigan undergrad and law school, center for individual rights. we brought the original case ten years ago and won against the law school and undergrads because of sandra day o'connor who said we need 25 more years of affirmative action. now we have constitutional provisions with expiration dates. there is an interesting book avent tsurprise. liberals try to help how did they cover the failure of public school? affirmative-action. let's deal with the public schools and i suppose i should say, whether or not i always thought was a mistake to make this argument though the imperial -- empirical evidence is interesting i don't care for beneficiary supports race discrimination or not. is unconstitutional. we are republicans. we do not believe in race discrimination. i don't want to hear about legacies. we did not fight a civil war to stop legacies. unlike some supreme court opinions i think the way to get past race discrimination is not to discriminate. [applause] >> i think the way to get past race discrimination is to stop discriminating on t
>> my law firm brought the case against university of michigan undergrad and law school, center for individual rights. we brought the original case ten years ago and won against the law school and undergrads because of sandra day o'connor who said we need 25 more years of affirmative action. now we have constitutional provisions with expiration dates. there is an interesting book avent tsurprise. liberals try to help how did they cover the failure of public school? affirmative-action....
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they were passing right to work laws. they were receiving from you and from the federal government to build military installations that attend the united states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. states like mississippi, georgia, texas and southern california and arizona and north carolina are all transformed in the post-world war ii period by this historic shift in population and political influence. just think about it. the latest period from 1964 to 2008 could be thought of this kind of the period of sun belt dominance in american presidential history. you think about every president elected from 1964 to 2008 comes from the state on the sun belt. when johnson from texas, richard nixon from california. gerald ford was never elected, so he doesn't count. jimmy carter from georgia, ronald reagan from california. the first george bush via connecticut. bill clinton from arkansas and the second question texas. so too does the natives and so ways a watershed election. it ends the 40 year. the sun belt domi
they were passing right to work laws. they were receiving from you and from the federal government to build military installations that attend the united states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. states like mississippi, georgia, texas and southern california and arizona and north carolina are all transformed in the post-world war ii period by this historic shift in population and political influence. just think about it. the latest period from 1964 to 2008 could be thought...
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they carry out the laws with the town. so they go through the agenda, just like any legislature would. the question is called, conducted under strict rules of order, too. it's not what you see in television. there's no telling out, no interrupting. if that happens, people are called to account very, very quickly indeed. so it's a role structured legislative session. , featuring common, ordinary citizens like you and me. it takes in a way of looking up politics that brings the left and right together. the rapiers big government, the left fears big business. what's the commonality? susanne and i deal if americans had the experience of seeing how small works best for democracy, it would change everything. but of course in all of the key town meetings, in order to save it come you have to empower citizens. if all american citizens for town meetings, lived in small towns, went to town meetings regularly, the presidential elections would be phenomenally better. we wouldn't be sick of them already. it would be none of the unpleas
they carry out the laws with the town. so they go through the agenda, just like any legislature would. the question is called, conducted under strict rules of order, too. it's not what you see in television. there's no telling out, no interrupting. if that happens, people are called to account very, very quickly indeed. so it's a role structured legislative session. , featuring common, ordinary citizens like you and me. it takes in a way of looking up politics that brings the left and right...
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he said in a you know law, legislative director seems like a part-time job to make. and what that meant was during the first continuing resolution, there was this sort of orgy of everybody, of very open and kind of glorious process, if a messy one, he did not understand what any of the more because he had no legislative director to explain to him. he did not have a full documentation director because he had been a radio disc jockey. he believed he committed 12. he did not have a congressional website because he said own a computer business. he knew that to do -- to put up the website it only cost next number of dollars, and there are i think only five companies in washington d.c. that have been deemed to secure some debate on that contract, and he found that the prices they were charging more egregious, that back in corpus the cost a lot less, and so did not put up a site for a while. so it became a lot of voices of worst enemy on top of which his wife, it was often the case, congressman that became very, very interested in the personal, very interested and lots of t
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penalized for breaking the law. but not taking any action, were neglecting the issue further. >> i often say that success is a process, not a reseller. many law-enforcement officers had the pleasure of meeting up for my life have all said many of the same things that hipolito as saying. the process is not working properly. the politicians aren't addressing this issue. you know, we need to take a long, hard on the slick as to what we are doing to help people, to help our brothers and sisters in mexico because if we don't do that, the problem or continue to grow and take over american cities and expand the inner-city. >> think we've got time for a couple more questions. >> i would like to ask you about how you evaluated the decision to write your book because in the present some past activities, i certainly think he would've designed the exposure it would give you. >> if i may come at the an excellent question, by the way. i want to thank my wife for being here with me because she's been with me for 38 years, so i can
penalized for breaking the law. but not taking any action, were neglecting the issue further. >> i often say that success is a process, not a reseller. many law-enforcement officers had the pleasure of meeting up for my life have all said many of the same things that hipolito as saying. the process is not working properly. the politicians aren't addressing this issue. you know, we need to take a long, hard on the slick as to what we are doing to help people, to help our brothers and...
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religion is banned, there is no rule of law and received political infraction that with harsh punishment that is out to three generation of a person's family. a political offender knows that when he goes to prison, his parents and his children will probably go with him. there are probably about 200,000 north koreans today, and more than alley and perhaps as high as 2 million have already died there. it's thanks to the testimony of north koreans that have escaped. these are the people that i write about in my book. this knowledge comes to us despite the best efforts of the family regime to keep it secret. for more than 50 years ever since the end of the korean war, north korea has been sealed off from the world's eyes. the family regime has pursued an isolationist policy and maintains an iron grip on information. access to which is very strictly controlled. to give just one example, every radio must be registered with the government and its donald must be fixed to the government-run radio station. to enforce this rule, security police equipped with scanners, cruise neighborhoods trying to
religion is banned, there is no rule of law and received political infraction that with harsh punishment that is out to three generation of a person's family. a political offender knows that when he goes to prison, his parents and his children will probably go with him. there are probably about 200,000 north koreans today, and more than alley and perhaps as high as 2 million have already died there. it's thanks to the testimony of north koreans that have escaped. these are the people that i...
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they were passing right to work laws. receiving lots of fundings from the federal government to build military at the time when the united states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. so states like mississippi but states like georgia and texas and florida and southern california and arizona and north carolina are being transformed in the postworld war two period by the historic shift as the period of the sun belt dominance. if you think about every president elected from 1963 comes from state of the sun belt. lyndon johnson from texas and richard nixon from california. gerald ford was never elected. he doesn't count. jimmy carter from georgia reagan from california. texas and bill clinton from arkansas and the second bush from texas. so twaict is the water shed election. it ends the forty year period of sun belt dominance. there were issues of critical in the politics that developed that came out of the sun belt. that we see the rise by the 1970 be coming to talk about the religious right. so strom was a
they were passing right to work laws. receiving lots of fundings from the federal government to build military at the time when the united states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. so states like mississippi but states like georgia and texas and florida and southern california and arizona and north carolina are being transformed in the postworld war two period by the historic shift as the period of the sun belt dominance. if you think about every president elected from 1963...
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in pennsylvania at the time was an interesting law. if the slave is in the state for more than six months, he was emancipated. washington had to move his slaves back and forth between mount vernon and philadelphia to keep them from being emancipated , even though this is absolutely against the letter of the pennsylvania state law. so that is the side of the story we often don't tell. a man of his time, absolutely. during the revolution when he takes command of the continental army he goes to boston and sees black men with guns and knows he's not going to build a self this to his brethren south carolina and georgia. he stops that. eventually he changed his mind when he needed more bodies and his army peer we always have to weigh these things. they are not black-and-white issues. he was a man of his time, part of the society utterly dependent on slavery and knew he was not going to change the minds of his fellow slaveholders. we point to these founding fathers and genuinely with admiration. but this was clearly where they did not see the
in pennsylvania at the time was an interesting law. if the slave is in the state for more than six months, he was emancipated. washington had to move his slaves back and forth between mount vernon and philadelphia to keep them from being emancipated , even though this is absolutely against the letter of the pennsylvania state law. so that is the side of the story we often don't tell. a man of his time, absolutely. during the revolution when he takes command of the continental army he goes to...